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The Horizon Slips

by Andy Zuk

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1.
A Quiet Resignation 06:28
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I'm stone cold The wind blows right through me At home Reflections get to me I don't see a way through this I've lost all hope A quiet resignation A quiet guilty plea Should hush down the monsters Who've got me on my knees It's not like I could but I won't They take me to the edge but I don't Cast myself off into the river and head to the sea Don't breathe The feelings I'm stuck with will grow Until I feel like I just might explode The fireworks inside me go off but outside I'm just still I'm still me I'm just shards Just parts since the whole fell away I burn all my bridges and stay And count all my riches as night turns into day Surrounded by yes men By sycophants and thieves And come the revolution We'll twist on the breeze I took all you had just for show And still I won't leave you alone Leave me to the sea and I'll fossilise, ossify for eternity A constant reminder of home For all those who set out on their own And who stare down the barrel and shout down the tide And who do succeed
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Backbone 03:46
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You're a sensitive soul and god knows just how far you could go If you reset your backbone let go of your old hopes and go It's this senseless hypocrisy dragging you down it weighs down your bones And this hopeless futility wears out your soul and it won't let go We all reach a point where the pretence must come to an end So you build up these castles from silence and in them you stand Why would you do this to me? Why can't you see what it's doing to me You're a sensitive soul, with nowhere to go And you aren't and you can't be everything you were then An old romantic too far over the cliff to come back You're here, but just waiting, a fault in design made you sad The last nail driven down into the lid A missed chance to push the boundaries of what can exist There's a weight in your soul, your blood runs too cold You're wasted and lonely, you're inspired and you're only a sensitive soul
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Magnesium Igniting 04:11
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If I dropped you then you'd just accelerate You'd feel no drag, no you just won't brake If I dropped you then you'd just accelerate You'd feel no drag, no you just won't brake Don't change - to me you will remain idealised You're the Dorian Gray I'm a picture of A phoenix from the flames and you're rising up You're the dusting of snow on my mountain peak The perfect application of correct technique Don't change - you're perfection in a form personified As you age I open up and I absorb that change Your cells are merged with mine and we are intertwined You're better than you ever were to start with You're better than you ever were at all Magnesium igniting in the darkness You're 24 carat solid gold You left me in gear with the handbrake on At a million iterations and approaching one Four to the floor, you're building up Euphoria, you're never giving up A sine wave - you're just a fundamental - pure phase.
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First in the Race 04:05
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This was not his tragedy The compass cracked and set him free Who could forget that face? The flawless getaway and the effortless grace Until that fateful minute it went wrong Never 'til this second a tick off the pace The planets all aligned always first in the race All the time bombs you’re planning on setting All of them can be defused All the paths lady luck may be taking None of them lead back to you Now we see who you really are Now it’s all gone wrong What was once exemplary Only one in all the world, distinct, unique Now has cookie-cutter copies and counterfeits Facsimiles, fugazees, identikits No way to tell them all apart, to differentiate to find distinguishing marks Standing still with all the waxworks and duplicates With the tricksters and the con men and circus acts.
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Thought Experiment 04:50
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Can I change it up? Want to see it working that way Let my thoughts run wild Inventive ways to help you dilate time again Do I look bad? Talk like I’ve seen a bomb drop? All to help you find Pointless ways to help you lose again. There’s a spot in the distance that constantly shifts Back and forth as the horizon slips I crank up the power but my fuse just trips As hubris grows I leave my mark And spiral out my tendrils now On empty guts my armies march The stasis overwhelms me See it stretching out Amorphous and unending Constant ebb and never flow Expanding to the corners of your mind Over countless sequels the plot unfolds We’ve got them written down in code You don’t understand but you’re all engrossed On empty guts my armies march The stasis overwhelms me now A pointless gedanken I’m acting out I’m gnarled and I’m contorted Want it but can’t afford it now
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Platitudes 05:54
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Today your words and platitudes waste my time Someday we’ll stand together somewhere divine It’s gnawing at my faith and it’s clawing at my mind It’s just one more pointless little lie But I don’t mind, I don’t mind We didn’t know exactly what you were going through It wasn’t easy and in the end you didn’t get through The barbed wire and the watchtowers The endless nameless ache It’s just one more thing that I can’t take Another bend in a dead-end trail. A narrative on rail tracks I jump on the brakes but they just don’t connect An epic course that’s plotted out in tiny steps I sat and watched the stars align Did nothing while you agonised Until the bitter end No sparks, no naked flames and no getting free From the cage that you were in and where you’ll always be We all go to that place but it’s somewhere that you stayed In the belly of the whale, of the monster you can’t slay It ate you up. It swallowed you whole I write dialogue for a one-man show, and talk of war with nothing but regret And tell age-old jokes with a punchline that I just don’t get And watch as all of this unwinds I’d give up all this for more time At the bitter end Of all the things that I regret The thing that turns the screw inside me Is that thought that this could be so different.
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Dead End 04:30
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We’re never going to turn it round We got stranded in a dead-end town The skies are packed with cloud But they still won’t end the drought And we’re never going to turn it round I’ve made a list of all I lack I stretched it out until I snapped An awful cracking sound Arrow always pointing down And we’re never going to turn it round The noises off and background chat Just fill me up with fresh self doubt The good days came and went And we’re back down here again And we’re never going to turn it round And you say this time I’ll chase those tears away
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Coalesce 05:05
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We’re just a shell. the remnants of the guilt and the shame The objects on the shelf, the yellow part of the flame We’re a statement of the obvious, we’re the thoughts that drag you down every day An outpost in the desert, in the tundra, the plain The contours on the map eroded down to the same point of elevation A convergent, amorphous terrain Our view up the pedestal dims again Our bags of hollow bones and our marks out of ten Flow like magma and sink like a stone At the speed that a glacier creeps to the sea And we coalesce but we’re desperate to be on our own again And we’re all joined up, but we’d do anything to be alone You could have it all, but you don’t take it away Enthusiasm dwindles and our interest decays And you never saw it coming You were lying to yourself every day We match you and your pointlessness in every way You’re standing under shelter and we’re praying for rain And we’re saving our excuses and we’re giving each other more of the same It don’t add up, it don’t make sense Can’t tell deliberate mistakes from the accidents Nothing stacks up, and it’s happening again
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The Hypnotist's Fingers 04:53
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Imaginary tracks snake and vein Take characters that I’ve portrayed out and free from the photo frames Unshackled, they drift in and out of these stories I fake I’ve turned to a ghost, but somewhere I’m breathing I’ve become the impossible dream that they’re chasing Their last bit of interest will fade, so I’ll have to elaborate The paths turn to motorway lanes I weave and I accelerate when I’m running away Rusty cage in splinters, I’ve hit reset, put a Vulcan grip round my neck And I shed my skin At the moment of fleeing, A point in the distance forever receding The radio echoes my name A pointless and endless sustain Until I go right back to where I began again The vapour trails drift into space The last bloodstain evaporates or gets washed away By the tide encroaching Relentlessly changing these landscapes I’ve known But the click of the hypnotist’s fingers will free me I’ll slip through the bars and I’ll turn back to nobody As permanent as rocks and sky As transparent as passers-by Until I go right back to where I began again.
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The Exorcist 04:57
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I’ve been speaking in tongues, hearing voices, blacking out All these black thoughts are circling round As I spider, backwards, down the stairs and vomit out All these new words that I have found I’ve been hearing meaning in these songs, where there is none And in the blackbird’s call I hear them all ring on My family expands and forms a phalanx round my bed I twist and I contort, play games with their heads I twist and I contort around their heads It’s too late to send a priest for me I’ve slipped too far behind Abandon all your hope for me And this sickness in my mind Bible verses, proverbs, folded hands and lifted hearts I will push them back down where they’ll stay Medieval process, exorcist can’t chase Satan away So he’s taking us back to the flames Levitation? Tie me down, secure me to my bed I’ll slip out from the chains and float around instead The holy water splashes round, can’t cast the demon out It battens down the hatches, burrows itself down

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released November 17, 2019

All songs, performances and production by Andy Zuk

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Andy is a multi instrumentalist singer/songwriter and producer living in the south of England.

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